Later Walter Block changed his mind about aggression and violence. Now he is a staunch supporter of the wars of aggresssion perpetrated by the USA and Israel in the Middle East that he likes to style as "self-defense" (seriously, of a government?).
He even wrote a book (coauthored with Futerman) titled "The Classical Liberal Case For Israel".
https://t.co/bCeEK265Il
This is particularly ridiculous given that, according to Israeli law, basically all land belongs to the State.
https://t.co/FIw2RHcO6q
Block's and Futerman's argument goes that the historical Jews had homesteaded the lands of Palestine when they where forcibly and illegally evicted by the Romans in 70 A.D. Hence their right to reclaim their ancestral lands, if necessary by force, regardless of the current legal owners of the same land.
According to Block and Futerman, the current Israeli population is made of the direct descendants of the evicted Jews, although the Jewish descendancy is mixed, with a very substantial part coming from East Europe.
https://t.co/mnw44t1xuz
Hence, Block and Futerman affirm that property titles on the Palestinian lands should be ascertained not by legal standards but by means of genetic testing.
However, if you go back 2000 years it is impossible to reconstruct direct descendency because with every generation the number of the ascendants doubles. So much so that going back only thousand years, every living person at that time is a direct ascendant of every living person now.
https://t.co/tXt7YmyWS7
This makes the claim of the State of Israel on the historical lands particularly silly.
Yet, Block goes on defending the war against Iran, recently with a different turn. The scope would be to defend the rights of the Iranians. If they die during the process of being defended by the military complex of Israel and the USA, no hard feelings, in Block's opinion. It will be a death by a "classical liberal" bomb.
https://t.co/dIsFpakXSV
@Sychron@The_PFBC Gordon is a master in (textual) communication. His lectures often give specific impressions to the audience while the underlying message is usually different. He is playing the audience like a violin. Americans, of course, never suspect anything.
@GeurtdewitDe@The_PFBC I watched it some years ago, I did find it suspicious, out of place in an institution meant to be (I then thought) revisionist and politically incorrect. Still, I didn't think much of it.
Your article helped me put two and two together.
"The US should apologize and pay restitution for killing noncombatants."
We did it. We, personally, here at the Property and Freedom Book Club, moved the Overton Window.
We will continue working tirelessly to bring previously unthinkable positions into the national discussion.
1/ Even libertarianism, a movement built on universal principles and non-aggression, isn't immune to tribal fault lines.
A year ago it cracked wide open over Gaza. 🧵
Adeo maior esse coeperat numerus accipientium quam dantium, ut enormitate indictionum consumptis viribus colonorum desererentur agri et culturae verterentur in silvam.
Lattanzio, De mortibus persecutorum
@PadreFJD@WydadiFanatkv ¡A mí no me tiene que convencer! La Biblia no es un texto histórico, los historiadores no respaldan su maximalismo bíblico. No ataque al Corán por contener elementos sobrenaturales, cuando también los contienen las Escrituras.
Todo ataque aplicable al catolicismo debe evitarse.
1/ Many now suspect Israel is using Morocco to destabilize Spain over its support for Palestine.
To understand why Spaniards won't back down, you have to understand who's still in living memory here:
Francisco Franco.
🧵
@PadreFJD@WydadiFanatkv Y yo creo que una Mujer Siempre Virgen antes, durante y después del parto concibió al Hijo de Dios por obra y gracia del Espíritu Santo, golpe bajo, padre.
Capitalism doesn't exist. A system based on economic freedom and respect for private property has been imagined by economists but never happened in reality. We have cronyism, corporatism, mercantilism, and different brands of socialism with tiny and ever shrinking islands of freedom that are constantly under attack.
In response to the Third Worldist aggression of the two Zionist states (USA and Israel), Spain should support the rightful independence of the illegitimately occupied Republic of the Rif
(The Rif War, a very interesting conflict, is described in one of our books, link below)
ANTI-ZIONISM PROTECTED BY UK LAW
We have set a binding legal precedent!
Anti-Zionism is now a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Full stop.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal finally handed down its judgment this morning. The University of Bristol’s attempt to overturn my 2024 Employment Tribunal victory has been comprehensively dismissed. We won on every single count.
This is a public humiliation for the genocidal Zionist regime, whose assets in Britain bullied the University into sacking me and then dragged them into this futile appeal. Their legal strategy has collapsed. Their pressure campaign has spectacularly backfired.
Thanks to everyone who believed in me and supported me. This is a victory for the whole anti-Zionist movement.
A full statement will follow shortly.
From the River to the Sea
Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸
#DismantleZionism
This is one of the most educational seven-minute video I have ever watched. A case-study on how geography determines geopolitics: Israel's naval trade go through three choke-points:
1. the Strait of Hormuz controlled by Iran,
2. the Bab el-Mandeb controlled by Yemen,
3. the Strait of Gibraltar controlled by Spain.
Hence the migrant crisis in Ceuta.
We're seeing continued growth in terms of irl groups that team members are involved in as well as sales numbers. The online space seems to be stagnating as the offline space expands.